Strictly speaking, the pill is 100% effective. However, your typical *user* is only about 95% effective at remembering to take it (or choosing to remember to take it). IIRC there has never been a case of someone falling pregnant on the long term implant - ever.
Well...the point is you aren't paying any of these people. No-one has to. They earn the money they do because someone does think they're worth that. Britney's never had a penny out of my pocket either, and she never will. But I don't begrudge her the fact that her music is (or was, perhaps) extremely attractive to a generation of teenagers.
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I'm not trolling, but you forgot to add that every other post will start with the words "I'm not trolling, but..."
The idea that a people could be responsible enough to choose their own leaders was, in those days, a pretty unlikely proposition. Hell, it seems daft enough now. But the idea that you could circumscribe the power of the monarch by creating a constitutional monarchy - that was a powerful idea and its importance should not be understated.
Well, indeed. A tsunamai hitting that part of the world would be, say, 200km long, very approximately. In open water, a tsunami is approximately a meter or so tall and travels at circa 1000km/h. So, roughly speaking, we have 0.5*((200km*pi*1m^2)*1000kg/m^3)*((1000km/s)^2)= pi*10^20 Joules. Now a megaton, roughly speaking, is 4.184*10^15 Joules. So, to deal with our posited tsunami, we will need pi*10^20/4.184*10^15 megatons of nuke, that is, around 75 000 megatons. The Tsar Bomba, the largest device ever tested, yielded 50 megatons. So, we would need some 1500 Tsar Bombas (or 750 if the theoretical maximum yield can be squeezed out of them). However, sadly for firework fans everywhere, the Soviet Union discontinued these highly useful devices, and so we are left with the current arsenal, which generally have a typical yield of 1.2 megatons or less. This means in turn we need some 63000 nuclear weapons. After START II, however the US reduced its arsenal to around 2200 in active deployment. In other words, learn to swim, boy!.
It does seem high, but some level of musical training was ubiquitous before the advent of the record player. One of the things a respectable home had was a piano, just like they now have a laptop.
The modern focus on share price really irritates me. A share in a company simply entitles you to a potentially infinite stream of payments; all the share price does is reflect the likelihood of that actually happening at any given moment. There's neither a reason nor a given why that share price should increase over time.
I just think she's an idiot. The dearth of intelligent people in government who can stand on their own two feet and put their own opinions forward is pathetic. In the 1980s, the police came crying to Willie Goodall, the then Home Secretary, crying that they needed more powers to deal with the Irish terrorist threat. He told them to naff off and stop being silly. This lot don't seem to realise that's an option.
Yeah, the thing is you keep hearing about how RM managed to deliver such fantastic addresses anyway. Well done by the way. My favourite was a postcard sent to my mother - the sender forgot to write the address and just put her name. OK, we're a minority surname but it showed up three days after posting.
If you're telling me that life as a member of the working class was just as good in 1809 as it is in 2009, I have some bad news for you. There's nothing good about a stagnant economy that provides opportunities for no-one. Sure, if you have nothing, you can't lose it. That's not an argument for not letting people try.
It's a small island. I can count the whole of the British monarchy in my ancestry, from George III backwards, right down to Aethelred, King Fergus, not to mention Charlemagne and the entire Roman Empire back to their age of kings. It doesn't mean very much. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go invade Ireland now.
You can. It just requires well defined inputs and outputs and to run on certified hardware. Software, heal thyself? There's a reason self-modifying code is frowned upon. Besides, is kernel reliability really an issue these days? Even the Windows kernel only really crashes when you feed it bad memory.
This is a good example. Extremely specialised interest, not available anywhere else (unless it's been mirrored in the last couple of years), and covers its subject in better detail than I've encountered in any of the standard histories. Certainly much more detail than the Wikipedia article.
It's a common fallacy that an increasing national debt is a bad thing per se. Bear in mind that GDP increases faster than debt over time, and that inflation erodes the value of debts. Also, many governments have legacy debts that are cheaper to service than repay, so they will never go away. Britain, for example, still pays interest on bonds sold to pay for the Napoleonic wars - at 2%. Paying back that debt would be totally pointless: if the spare cash was there it would be better off squirrelled in a savings account (a very large one, but never mind).
A trademark can be a 3D design, just as it can be a word or a logo. The classic Coke bottle shape was one of the first such trademarks IIRC. But there's no legal difference between these and any other.
Indeed. Keep an eye on the Democracy in America blog, too - whoever writes that has a habit of trying to slip in as many Dylan lyrics as he can get away with.
IANADNDIPOOTV, but my limited understanding going on what I've read is that no, fluid on the lungs is not usually severe enough in this particular form to cause death. But who knows. What we do know from history is that ill advised speculation and comment during the early stages of a potential crisis are usually dead wrong (just check out/.'s stories from 9/11 for superb examples).
No. Performer's copyright lasts for 50 years from the date of recording (or possibly first distribution, I forget). Author's copyright is life + 70. So in the UK, the soundtrack of the sixties is due to hit the public domain over the next ten years.
Just lol. Seriously. Gas and oil production *may* be at a peak: more probably not in our lifetimes. Economic work has no direct relationship with energy consumed. Productivity rises faster than costs. Also, can I interest you in googling for the "lump of labour" fallacy which you appear to be beholden to?
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Strictly speaking, the pill is 100% effective. However, your typical *user* is only about 95% effective at remembering to take it (or choosing to remember to take it). IIRC there has never been a case of someone falling pregnant on the long term implant - ever.
Do you deserve what you get paid? Or is that between you and the people that pay you? This is jealousy, and it isn't pretty.
Jellomizer, meet sarcasm. Sarcasm, meet jellomizer. I hear you both have an interest in 1920s comic book? Fantastic. Well, I'll leave you to it.
Well...the point is you aren't paying any of these people. No-one has to. They earn the money they do because someone does think they're worth that. Britney's never had a penny out of my pocket either, and she never will. But I don't begrudge her the fact that her music is (or was, perhaps) extremely attractive to a generation of teenagers.
I'm not trolling, but you forgot to add that every other post will start with the words "I'm not trolling, but..."
I suggest you google for Ceren Ercen before you go making any more comments like that.
The idea that a people could be responsible enough to choose their own leaders was, in those days, a pretty unlikely proposition. Hell, it seems daft enough now. But the idea that you could circumscribe the power of the monarch by creating a constitutional monarchy - that was a powerful idea and its importance should not be understated.
Well, indeed. A tsunamai hitting that part of the world would be, say, 200km long, very approximately. In open water, a tsunami is approximately a meter or so tall and travels at circa 1000km/h. So, roughly speaking, we have 0.5*((200km*pi*1m^2)*1000kg/m^3)*((1000km/s)^2)= pi*10^20 Joules. Now a megaton, roughly speaking, is 4.184*10^15 Joules. So, to deal with our posited tsunami, we will need pi*10^20/4.184*10^15 megatons of nuke, that is, around 75 000 megatons. The Tsar Bomba, the largest device ever tested, yielded 50 megatons. So, we would need some 1500 Tsar Bombas (or 750 if the theoretical maximum yield can be squeezed out of them). However, sadly for firework fans everywhere, the Soviet Union discontinued these highly useful devices, and so we are left with the current arsenal, which generally have a typical yield of 1.2 megatons or less. This means in turn we need some 63000 nuclear weapons. After START II, however the US reduced its arsenal to around 2200 in active deployment. In other words, learn to swim, boy!.
I thought so as well, but it turns out to be legit. Some very snappy writing for the time, it must be said.
It does seem high, but some level of musical training was ubiquitous before the advent of the record player. One of the things a respectable home had was a piano, just like they now have a laptop.
The modern focus on share price really irritates me. A share in a company simply entitles you to a potentially infinite stream of payments; all the share price does is reflect the likelihood of that actually happening at any given moment. There's neither a reason nor a given why that share price should increase over time.
Wierd. It was there this morning. Archive.org has it, though.
I just think she's an idiot. The dearth of intelligent people in government who can stand on their own two feet and put their own opinions forward is pathetic. In the 1980s, the police came crying to Willie Goodall, the then Home Secretary, crying that they needed more powers to deal with the Irish terrorist threat. He told them to naff off and stop being silly. This lot don't seem to realise that's an option.
Yeah, the thing is you keep hearing about how RM managed to deliver such fantastic addresses anyway. Well done by the way. My favourite was a postcard sent to my mother - the sender forgot to write the address and just put her name. OK, we're a minority surname but it showed up three days after posting.
If you're telling me that life as a member of the working class was just as good in 1809 as it is in 2009, I have some bad news for you. There's nothing good about a stagnant economy that provides opportunities for no-one. Sure, if you have nothing, you can't lose it. That's not an argument for not letting people try.
It's a small island. I can count the whole of the British monarchy in my ancestry, from George III backwards, right down to Aethelred, King Fergus, not to mention Charlemagne and the entire Roman Empire back to their age of kings. It doesn't mean very much. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go invade Ireland now.
You can. It just requires well defined inputs and outputs and to run on certified hardware. Software, heal thyself? There's a reason self-modifying code is frowned upon. Besides, is kernel reliability really an issue these days? Even the Windows kernel only really crashes when you feed it bad memory.
This is a good example. Extremely specialised interest, not available anywhere else (unless it's been mirrored in the last couple of years), and covers its subject in better detail than I've encountered in any of the standard histories. Certainly much more detail than the Wikipedia article.
It's a common fallacy that an increasing national debt is a bad thing per se. Bear in mind that GDP increases faster than debt over time, and that inflation erodes the value of debts. Also, many governments have legacy debts that are cheaper to service than repay, so they will never go away. Britain, for example, still pays interest on bonds sold to pay for the Napoleonic wars - at 2%. Paying back that debt would be totally pointless: if the spare cash was there it would be better off squirrelled in a savings account (a very large one, but never mind).
A trademark can be a 3D design, just as it can be a word or a logo. The classic Coke bottle shape was one of the first such trademarks IIRC. But there's no legal difference between these and any other.
Indeed. Keep an eye on the Democracy in America blog, too - whoever writes that has a habit of trying to slip in as many Dylan lyrics as he can get away with.
IANADNDIPOOTV, but my limited understanding going on what I've read is that no, fluid on the lungs is not usually severe enough in this particular form to cause death. But who knows. What we do know from history is that ill advised speculation and comment during the early stages of a potential crisis are usually dead wrong (just check out /.'s stories from 9/11 for superb examples).
No. Performer's copyright lasts for 50 years from the date of recording (or possibly first distribution, I forget). Author's copyright is life + 70. So in the UK, the soundtrack of the sixties is due to hit the public domain over the next ten years.
But on the other hand, he's certainly not a Big Label fan either. There's a reason he became the Artist Formerly Known As Prince for a good few years.
Just lol. Seriously. Gas and oil production *may* be at a peak: more probably not in our lifetimes. Economic work has no direct relationship with energy consumed. Productivity rises faster than costs. Also, can I interest you in googling for the "lump of labour" fallacy which you appear to be beholden to?